NAME¶
Module::Packaged - Report upon packages of CPAN distributions
SYNOPSIS¶
use Module::Packaged;
my $p = Module::Packaged->new();
my $dists = $p->check('Archive-Tar');
# $dists is now:
# {
# cpan => '1.08',
# debian => '1.03',
# fedora => '0.22',
# freebsd => '1.07',
# gentoo => '1.05',
# openbsd => '0.22',
# suse => '0.23',
# }
# meaning that Archive-Tar is at version 1.08 on CPAN but only at
# version 1.07 on FreeBSD, version 1.05 on Gentoo, version 1.03 on
# Debian, version 0.23 on SUSE and version 0.22 on OpenBSD
DESCRIPTION¶
CPAN consists of distributions. However, CPAN is not an isolated system -
distributions are also packaged in other places, such as for operating
systems. This module reports whether CPAN distributions are packaged for
various operating systems, and which version they have.
Only CPAN, Debian, Fedora (Core 2), FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandriva (10.1), OpenBSD
(3.6) and SUSE (9.2) are currently supported. I want to support everything
else. Patches are welcome.
The data is fetched from the net and cached for an hour.
METHODS¶
new()¶
The
new() method is a constructor:
my $p = Module::Packaged->new();
check()¶
The
check() method returns a hash reference. The keys are various
distributions, the values the version number included:
my $dists = $p->check('Archive-Tar');
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 2003-5 Leon Brocard. All rights reserved. This program is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
Perl itself.
AUTHOR¶
Leon Brocard, leon@astray.com